Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton and Rutgers were joined by Columbia, but in 1871 intercollegiate football temporarily lapsed. At Yale in the fall of 1872 were a number of young football players with a capacity for constructive leadership, and these men, with their associates, organized themselves into the Yale Football Association. Having drafted a code of playing, they challenged Columbia, and the latter accepted...
While these basic events in football history were being enacted at Yale, similar activity characterized undergraduate life at Harvard. Stimulated by the leadership of Robert R. Grant '73, the football leaders in 1872 established the Harvard Football Club. The code of rules drawn up by these pioneers at Cambridge combined both the Association and Rugby codes, thus preventing the University's advent as an intercollegiate competitor for two more years, limiting their games in the interim to class and club contests...
...will preside at both the morning business meeting and at the dinner in the evening at the Highland Club. The speakers at the dinner will include President Lowell, Austen G. Fox '69, and Professor Charles H. Grandgent '83. The afternoon will be given over to sports under the leadership of Frederick C. Weld '86, Secretary of the Federation...
...will be the last before the Yale game. The assembled student body will march from the Freshman dormitories through Mount Auburn street, across Massachusetts avenue, through the Yard and up the hill to the Union. Here they will conduct the most important mass meeting of the year under the leadership of the undergraduate cheer and song leaders, assisted by the University Band. Captain Murray and the other members of the team will be present during the cheering...
...convention is called by the Student Volunteer Movement, and will be conducted under the leadership of Dr. John R. Mott. Although the purpose of the meeting is primarily religious, it will also consider economic and political conditions the world over. Far from being a local assembly, the leaders expect representatives to attend from nearly every nation...